Nature's Mea Culpa?
- 03:37pm May 3, 2013
- Anita Bandrowski
Last week Nature announced that they will change their policy regarding methods, including various gems like:
* we will no longer make you publish another paper just to have a real methods section (their text: "expand the methods section")
* we will stop asking the reviewers to completely ignore your methods (their text: "encourage referees to consider aspects important for research reproducibility"
http://www.nature.com/news/announcement-reducing-our-irreproducibility-1.12852